Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary.
Quotes to Explore
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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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I have received nasty e-mails, messages on Twitter and ridiculous comments, not only about my size, but my family.
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Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.
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It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.
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More often than not, I get cast as quite Machiavellian roles - it's something about my face; I'm quite shifty or something!
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There isn't quite a feeling you get from playing video games that you get when you're playing sports, which is like a sense of euphoria. You just get the satisfaction of doing something active and feeling good after.
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And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that.
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Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.
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I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.
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People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of our household chores done, whether it's cleaning or doing a big food shop, so the house is all nice for the weekend.
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Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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I am sort of a tea addict. I structure my day by cups of tea.
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Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
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When parents tell their children not to congregate on corners, especially in groups, out of fear for them encountering the police, what does that say? We have a trust problem.
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If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.
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I'm somewhat overwhelmed by the microblogging that takes place in China, and the smartphones and all the people that want to take pictures of myself and my family.
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Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
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There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.
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We develop social systems for the handicapped, but when you're handicapped in your mind, society doesn't handle those situations well. I think we don't recognize or acknowledge the power of messages and how deeply affected we all are by the messages we receive from the media.
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I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.
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I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary.
